News Linux News for Dec 13, 2007:

The Greatest Linux Innovations Of 2007
(2007-12-13 00:15:46)
Phoronix: "The year is winding down and while we have a lot to look forward to next year, what were the greatest Linux innovations of this year..."

Radiohead, Open Source, and the Problem with Free
(2007-12-13 01:00:35)
The Open Road: "Give an IT buyer the option of getting something for nothing, and she will, nine times out of 10..."

CAOS Report Five: The SMB Market Opportunity
(2007-12-13 01:45:25)
451 CAOS Theory: "A few weeks ago, we released our fifth 451 Commercial Adoption of Open Source (CAOS) Research Report entitled 'The SMB Market Opportunity--How big are SMBs for open source?'..."

3 Things Elvis and OS/2 Have In Common
(2007-12-13 02:30:17)
TechIQ: "Name three things that Elvis and OS/2 have in common. Don't rush your answer. Think about it for a minute or two. OK, ready? Here's the answer...

Virtually Speaking: Storage, The New Frontier
(2007-12-13 03:15:02)
ServerWatch: "As thoughts turn to mistletoe and champagne, the virtualization infrastructure vendors delivered holiday cheer in the form of new product releases on Tuesday..."

Watching Linux Grow in the Islands of Andaman and Nicobar
(2007-12-13 04:00:54)
Red Hat Magazine: "In the last eight months, the islands of Andaman and Nicobar have witnessed tremendous development in the IT sector, especially in the case of open source and Linux..."

Graphics in Mozilla--Part 1
(2007-12-13 04:45:48)
Vladimir Vukicevic: "A while ago, I put together a presentation about the graphics architecture in Mozilla, and what we were working towards with Thebes and Cairo..."

Linux Media Player Roundup--Part 7--Finale
(2007-12-13 05:30:17)
Raiden's Realm: "Welcome to the last part of our Linux media player roundup..."

Paldo Melds Source-Based and Binary in One Distro
(2007-12-13 07:00:32)
Linux.com: "Paldo Linux is a cross between a source-based and binary distribution. It installs as a binary system to provide a quick and easy desktop..."

Frugalware 0.7 Review
(2007-12-13 08:30:42)
Open Review: "Frugalware is a general-purpose Linux distribution, designed for intermediate users, who are familiar with command-line operations..."

Mandriva Flash 2008: Bigger and Better
(2007-12-13 09:15:52)
Linux.com: "Mandriva is the only Linux maker that offers a version of its distribution packaged with and designed to run off a USB stick..."

First Kubuntu Impressions
(2007-12-13 10:00:43)
The Occasional Thoughts of Yaba: "The first step of my potential Kubuntu migration is an installation on a VMware to fiddle a little bit around with Kubuntu before passing the point of hard return, which is deleting my openSUSE installation..."

TuxMobil Now Offers 7,000 Linux Guides for the Laptop
(2007-12-13 10:45:25)
LinuxPR: "The TuxMobil project covers all aspects concerning Linux on laptops and notebooks..."

Bringing One SimCity Per Child to the OLPC
(2007-12-13 11:30:46)
LinuxWorld: "More recently, John Gilmore, an advisor to the One Laptop Per Child initiative, suggested the idea to Hopkins of bringing the game to the OLPC's XO laptop..."

China's Linux Desktop Market Booms
(2007-12-13 12:15:56)
Linux.com: "Although China's Linux market as a whole doubled from 2003 to 2006 to $20 million per year, sales of Linux desktop software grew more slowly..."

SWsoft Changing Name to Parallels
(2007-12-13 13:00:54)
eWeek: "SWsoft, a virtualization company that has labored in the shadow of VMware and other vendors for years, is changing its corporate name and plans to make a bigger push into this fast-growing market in 2008..."

2.6.24-rc5, No Final Before Xmas
(2007-12-13 13:45:30)
KernelTrap: "'It's been a week, and I promised to be a good boy and try to follow my release rules, so here is the next -rc,' Linus Torvalds said, announcing the 2.6.24-rc5 kernel..."

Xiph.Org Statement Regarding the HTML5 Draft and the Ogg Codec Set
(2007-12-13 14:30:46)
Xiph.Org: "Ogg provides a baseline of fully unencumbered, fully open, fully documented, fully royalty-free codecs that are lighter-weight than the contemporary encumbered solutions while offering comparable or superior performance..."

Adobe to Open Source Messaging Protocols
(2007-12-13 15:15:17)
internetnews.com: "Adobe Systems today announced it will release the remoting and messaging technologies used in Flex, Flash and other Adobe products as open source projects..."

OpenOffice.org Goes Online with SAAS Version
(2007-12-13 16:00:05)
DesktopLinux: "Do you really like OpenOffice.org as your office suite? Would you like to be able to use it on any computer with an Internet connection...?"

A Child's View of the $100 Laptop
(2007-12-13 16:45:19)
BBC: "Enter Rufus Cellan-Jones. He is nine, has far more experience of games consoles than computers, and has strong views on most matters..."

The World Series of Linux: Round 1
(2007-12-13 17:30:37)
CRN: "But the world of desktop Linux has become increasingly competitive, increasingly important to the IT industry, and increasingly available for anyone to try..."

Novell Lands Major Linux Server Contract with Office Depot
(2007-12-13 18:15:25)
Linux-Watch: "In its latest significant victory, Novell announced that Office Depot has elected to consolidate its server infrastructure on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 1..."

GNOME Theme Engine Designer Adds Transparency to GTK
(2007-12-13 19:00:52)
#open.ended: "GNOME theme engine designer Andrea Cimitan has implemented support for transparent widgets in the Murrine GTK theme engine, bringing Vista-like translucent glass effects to the GNOME desktop..."

NASA Will Tinker With Open-Source Rocket for Return to Moon
(2007-12-13 19:45:29)
Popular Mechanics: "The 'brains' of the Ares I rocket that will send four astronauts back to the moon sometime in the next 12 years will be built by Boeing, NASA announced today--but the specifications will be open-source and non-proprietary, so that other companies can bid on future contracts...."

Finer Points of OOXML Debate
(2007-12-13 20:30:01)
Roundup: The ISO meeting to vote on the standardization of OOXML is coming soon; ConsortiumInfo and Groklaw examine some of the finer points of what's ahead.

Text-to-Speech and Other KWord Tips
(2007-12-13 21:15:12)
LinuxPlanet: "Today we're going to learn some great shortcut for navigating long documents, some simple tricks for managing photo printing, and how to turn on KWord's text-to-speech engine and make it read to you..."

Centric CRM Changes Name, Releases 5.0 Version
(2007-12-13 22:00:17)
LinuxWorld: "Centric CRM said Wednesday it has changed its name to Concursive Corp., a move that coincides with the 5.0 release of its product..."

NZ Ministry of Justice: We Want Open Source
(2007-12-13 22:45:19)
ZDNet Australia: "The New Zealand Ministry for Justice believes that open source software is a more stable, supportable, and cost-effective choice compared to proprietary solutions..."

Applying a Proprietary Paradigm to an Open System
(2007-12-13 23:30:51)
Cigan's Random Thoughts: "Over the past several months however I have seen a lot of users, many of them long term FOSS users, try to apply the proprietary paradigm to open projects. This is most obvious with KDE 4.0..."

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